The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.
George OrwellI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George OrwellWar is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
George OrwellThe smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
George OrwellThe major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
George Orwell